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Guillaume Legros, also known as Saype, is a Swiss artist who is the pioneer of his poetic art “Land art”. Saype’s paints large-size land paintings on grass that speak about Humanity.
French-Swiss artist Saype poses in front of his giant biodegradable landart painting on Tuesday June 11, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
The paint used is kind to the environment and is hand made by the artist and his team, the paint is 100% biodegradable and made from natural materials. The fresco fades to the rhythm of regrowth of the grass before disappearing complement and naturally.
French-Swiss artist Saype works on a giant biodegradable landart painting Monday June 10, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
In a world that is polarized, Saype’s ambition is to create the largest human chain in the world, generate a real social movement and invite the crowds to benevolence. The project is titled “Beyond walls” and will link twenty megacities of the globe to the same ethos: Optimism and living together. This ambitious project will take Saype three years to paint.
Giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype, picture taken between June 9 and 12, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meter long and 25 meter wide painting (likely one of the largest of it’s kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
Beyond Walls project shows interlaced hands, reaching out, shaking and united in a common effort beyond all walls separating humans and enclosing them in mental or geographical spaces. Thus, the walls erected in mentalities become fictive partitions, wiped out by artistic imagination. It merely opens a breach in the real walls, the ones built by humanity within and against itself. Saype
PARIS Photo Credit Valentin Flauraud
A giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype is pictured Monday June 10, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
The symbolic human chain biodegradable land art began in the city of love, Paris. It is pictured between 9th June and 12th June 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower.
A giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype is pictured on Tuesday June 11, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting, (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins.
A giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype is pictured Monday June 10, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
In this specific artwork, the symbolic wall crossing does not eliminate the singularity of each of the hands: they all tell a life story and are subtly marked with multiple backgrounds (social, geographical, ethnical, etc.). Beyond walls and with this universal farandole, every human individuality is granted rights of way and civil ones. The universality conveyed in this project is one of plural humanity. Saype
A giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype is pictured on Monday June 10, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
This art piece launches the worldwide ‘Beyond Walls Project’; aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world.
PARIS Photo Credit Valentin Flauraud
‘Beyond Walls’ will cross borders in order to carry out this universal message from city to city, all along this immense human chain.
A giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype is pictured on Monday June 10, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
Follow the project on Facebook and Instagram and be part of the project by publishing you handshake #BeyondWalls
French-Swiss artist Saype poses in his giant biodegradable landart painting on Tuesday June 11, 2019 on the Champ de Mars in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. With an overall area of 15’000 square meters, the 600 meters long and 25 meters wide painting (likely one of the largest of its kind) was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. This art piece launches the worldwide project “Beyond Walls” aiming at creating the longest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. (VFLPIX.COM /Valentin Flauraud)
The next part of the chain takes Saype to Andorra and then Geneva! stay tuned …
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